Logistics Management (3)

Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | Shipping

A day in the life of a shipment with IL2000

Your business runs on shipments. LOTS of shipments. Whether you’re receiving materials critical to your manufacturing process, sending out components ...

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Logistics Management | Business Intelligence | SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Ponton discloses how flexible yet focused tech development crafts unique client solutions

Craig Ponton brings flexibility and agility to IL2000’s roadmap and a renewed promise to find customized customer solutions. Craig Ponton, Vice Presid...

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Logistics Management | Transportation Models | On-Time Delivery | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence | SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Your no-obligation supply chain analysis - Part III

How deep does the deep dive go? This blog post is the finale of our no-obligation supply chain analysis series. To recap, at the end of our blog posts...

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Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence | Core Values

Your no-obligation supply chain analysis

What does that actually mean? “Click here to request our no-obligation supply chain analysis.” We use that phrase a lot! Pick one of our blogs at rand...

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Logistics Management | Pricing Strategy | Transportation Models | Freight Costs

Intermodal transport: Latest logistics trend or true game changer?

What does an efficient freight operation look like? Is efficiency getting the product to its destination on time? Or is it cost efficiency? Or is it m...

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Logistics Management | Logistics History and Speculation | Trucking

Long hours, isolation, and urban legends

Truck drivers have tough jobs. They transport goods, many critical to survival, over great distances on tight, inflexible time schedules while remaini...

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Logistics Management | Core Values | SME (Subject Matter Expert) | LTL

DeKoninck: Building a Foundation of Trust and Respect

Josh DeKoninck may be relatively new as the GM of LTL, but he's an industry veteran with a fresh perspective on maintaining client relations and boost...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | Freight Costs

Five reasons IL2000’s TMS is best in class

If you’ve spent some time reading through our case studies, you may have noticed a recurring theme. A company approaches us with a difficult supply ch...

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Logistics Management | Transportation Models | Shipping | Trucking

Don't underestimate Hazmat classification

"Describe what's in the box." That instruction sounds simple and benign. But even a minor omission in the description of the contents can be catastrop...

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Logistics Management | Transportation Models | Freight Costs | Business Intelligence

What would a rail strike have looked like?

On Friday, 16 September, supply chain managers across the US breathed a collective sigh of relief. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh announced that freight ...

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Logistics Management | Inventory | Warehousing | Procurement | Business Intelligence | Just In Time

Lessons we can learn from the changing lumber industry

When managing your day-to-day freight challenges and struggling to fill customer orders on time, it’s easy to overlook big changes in the market that ...

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Logistics Management | Supply Chain Management | 3PL | Private Equity

How logistics management can improve profitability across a PE's entire portfolio of companies

Private equity firms look for an annual profit of between 20% and 25%. They estimate that one in every five companies they acquire will be a failure, ...

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